TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT June 25, 1967

The Beatles performed their new song “All You Need Is Love” during the closing segment of “Our World,” the first-ever live international telecast which was carried by satellite from 14 countries.

ALSO ON THIS DATE 1867

Barbed wire was patented by Lucien B. Smith of Kent, Ohio.

1910

President William Howard Taft signed the White-Slave Traffic Act, more popularly known as the Mann Act, which made it illegal to transport women across state lines for “immoral” purposes.

1947

“The Diary of a Young Girl,” the personal journal of Anne Frank, a Germanborn Jewish girl hiding with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II, was first published.

1981

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that male-only draft registration was constitutional.